Module Specifications..
Current Academic Year 2023 - 2024
Please note that this information is subject to change.
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Repeat the module Repeat the Module: The assessment of this module is inextricably linked to the delivery. The student must reattend the module in its entirety in order to be reassessed. |
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Description The purpose of this module is to advance students’ understanding of mental health issues, bringing a critical, reflective, and multi-theoretical and cross-cultural sociological perspective and humility to client presentations in psychotherapy practice. The module also attends to how participants can use an adaptable and integrative framework to psychotherapy assessment, case-formulation and treatment planning. In this module students will develop knowledge and skills in integrative psychotherapy practice in the context of working with a diversity of clients with complex, multifaceted histories and needs with a particular focus on trauma-care and awareness. The approach adopted will address the needs of participants as theoretically informed and skills-based integrative psychotherapy practitioners. Students are expected to attend lectures, seminars, and discussions to complement their self-directed learning activities through supplementary readings in relevant theoretical and empirical literature. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Learning Outcomes 1. A critical appreciation of how early experiences and traumatic events influence development. 2. Personally reflect and take responsibility for education around both personal, as well as social, biases, prejudices, and blind spots, positive or negative, they may hold consciously or unconsciously around cultural informings in/to/within aspects of mental health. Considering factors such as Race, Gender, Sexuality, Social Class within mental health discourses and practices. 3. Critically appreciate and reflect on one's own, as well as society’s, differing assessments, judgments, and understandings of addiction within the individual and within/for society. 4. Demonstrate a critical understanding of bio, psycho, socio-cultural dimensions and multidisciplinary approaches to diagnosis, categorisation, formulation, and treatment. 5. Apply the principles of an integrative and developmental framework to assessment, case-formulation, treatment planning and outcome in order to better inform clinical practice and supervisory engagements. 6. Appreciate and question, both for themselves and for clients, the interplay of sociological and cultural factors on mental health and mental health discourse. 7. Engage in ongoing active reflective engagement and practice to track bias, presumptions, questions, concerns and learnings that evolve and emerge through the activities and learnings on this module and evidence your ongoing formation as an integrative, reflective, clinician. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
All module information is indicative and subject to change. For further information,students are advised to refer to the University's Marks and Standards and Programme Specific Regulations at: http://www.dcu.ie/registry/examinations/index.shtml |
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Indicative Content and Learning Activities
Early Influences on Development:Influences of a range of early infant/childhood experiences on psychological development and ongoing mental health.Trauma and ResilienceConceptualisation of trauma from different theoretical perspectives: psychological impact of traumas, Recognising and Building Resilience.Loss, Bereavement and SuicideCritical consideration of mental health and psychotherapy discourses and clinical work, in relation to loss, bereavement and suicide.Addiction and SocietyA critical consideration of addiction and differing discourses around addictive and/or compulsive behaviour, for and within both the individual and society.Diversity in Approaches to Formulation and TreatmentMultidisciplinary & Culturally competent approaches to diagnosis, categorisation, formulation & treatment of mental health issues.Integrative Psychotherapy and Mental HealthApplying the principles of an integrative and developmental framework in psychotherapy practice. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Indicative Reading List
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Other Resources 59990, Journal, 0, Journal of Psychotherapy Integration, 59991, Journal, 0, Psychotherapy Theory, Research, Practice, Training, 59992, Journal, 0, Psychology and Psychotherapy: Theory, Research and Practice., 59993, Journal, 0, Journal of Counselling Psychology, 59994, Journal, 0, The Counselling Psychologist, 59995, Journal, 0, European Journal of Psychotherapy and Counselling, 59996, Journal, 0, Journal of Critical Psychology, Counselling and Psychotherapy, 59997, Journal, 0, Journal of Psychotherapy Practice and Research, 59998, Journal, 0, Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, 59999, On-line data base, 0, PsycArticles, 60000, On-line data base, 0, SAGE journals online, 60001, On-line data base, 0, ScienceDirect, 60002, Journal, 0, Psychotherapy Research, | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Date of Last Revision | 07-OCT-10 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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